There's stuff in the ppp(8) man page about this -- although I've
deprecated the mgetty stuff in favour of getty which is capable of
doing the same thing.
> Hello all,
>
> I want to configure a server machine I have at home to answer a phone line via
> internal modem and setup a PPP connection to the "outside world" (the machine
> is connected via broadband) for a Win98 machine being the remote caller.
>
> I've read up a little on mgetty and its use of AutoPPP to fire off pppd via
> various google searches. Many of the links I've brought up are reasonably
> decent explanations, but based around Linux setups.
>
> Does anybody have any bookmarked pointers to setting up mgetty+AutoPPP under
> FreeBSD -STABLE?
>
> I've dug through a few bits and I know our in-tree compilation of pppd is
> compiled with -DCHAPMS (which the Linux-related pointers said to make sure you
> used when compiling pppd) and our port of mgetty+sendfax does define
> -DAUTO_PPP during compilation (which was another "must"). Is there anything
> else that is needed to enable the code to DTRT?
>
> If anybody has done this sort of thing and wishes to share config files, or
> "gotchas" I would much appreciate it! Please 'cc:' me.
>
> After grepping the archives, it looks like this topic has come up a lot with
> varied answers but no real "pointers." If somebody has pointers or sample
> config files, I would be happy to try and mark them up and submit them to the
> -doc project!
>
> -Jr
>
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